Provide alternative health information from an ex-diabetic engineer to help diabetics reverse their diabetes.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Raw Juicing

Author's Perspective: Raw juicing can help accelerate your body's repair process so that you can reverse your diabetes within 30 days -- as long as you adhere to all 10 steps of the Death to Diabetes program. Raw juicing is also an excellent way to transition to a raw food diet program.

FYI: Most
people are aware of the obvious health benefits of raw juicing.
However, due to TV infomercials, various health and nutrition books, and
the Internet, there are some major misunderstandings and misuses of raw
juicing. As a result, most people who try juicing give it up within 3-6
months! I also found myself answering an excessive number of questions
about juicing via emails and workshops.

Consequently, I decided to do some research into various juicing books
and juicing philosophies. Interestingly, I discovered that a lot of
assumptions about how the body functions when you juice was based on a healthy body, not an unhealthy body! -- such as a diabetic's body or someone who is overweight.

As a result, I decided to write an ebook about raw juicing that answered
a lot of the misconceptions about raw juicing; and, provided additional
information that the other juicing books overlooked or didn't think was
important, i.e. how to make your juice taste scrumptious, how to
properly store your vegetables and fruits.

Update 2010: Everyone loved Mr. McCulley's Power of Juicing book
because it provided a lot more information than other juicing books
(see below for details), plus, the recipes actually work! However, some
of our clients stopped juicing after several months because they got
tired of cleaning their juicer! During one of the author's workshops, a
young woman asked whether there was another way to get the benefits of
juicing without having to deal with a juicer. Mr. McCulley mentioned
that green smoothies could provide some of the same benefits, but most
of the audience didn't know about green smoothies for diabetics. So, Mr.
McCulley expanded the juicing book to include recipes for making green
smoothies for diabetics and for people who wanted to lose weight.

Note: If you bought the old juicing book (without the smoothie recipes), just contact our office with your Invoice number, and we will send you the updated juicing book free of charge.

The Power of Raw Juicing, Green Smoothies, & Raw Diet

Raw juicing works, but only as part of an overall superior nutritional program, such as the Death to Diabetes Super Meal Model. Most people who do not reap the benefits of raw juicing are juicing improperly! -- by juicing the wrong foods and/or by using the wrong type of juicer.

Juicing is a very powerful nutritional therapy,
but most people misapply this therapy by preparing mostly fruit juices.
Vegetable juicing is more powerful than fruit juicing, especially for
people fighting diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, or any other
degenerative disease.

If eating raw vegetables, salads and soups are not appealing enough to
acquire the minimum 6 to 9 cups (5 to 7 servings) of vegetables and
fruits each day, then, juicing may be an effective addition to your
nutritional program. Even as a diabetic, juicing can be very nutritious
as long as you drink mostly green vegetables/grasses and avoid drinking
too many of the fruits.

Green juices (and green
smoothies) have an alkaline reaction in the body and help protect
against acid build-up as well as stimulate the body to manufacture
hemoglobin. Green juices contain organic water, the purest most natural
water available to us, and they cleanse the body of the waste within the
cells and tissues.
Green juices (and green smoothies) contain an abundance of chlorophyll,
which is a molecule whose structure is almost exactly the same as the
hemoglobin molecule of the human blood. Chlorophyll helps to repair
tissue and is very important in helping to remove toxins from the body.

As a result, raw juicing can help to accelerate your body's repair
process and help to reverse your diabetes in less time. In fact, you
should notice your blood glucose level starting to come down during the
first week of the Death to Diabetes Program! -- as long as you are following the entire program, not just the juicing component.

Juices are a perfect medium in which to mix and dissolve nutritional
powders that will enhance their healing powers. The nutrients and herbs
in powders are better absorbed than tablet forms of the same
ingredients, and mixing them in juices enhances their solubility,
digestion and absorption.

The juices bring the healing nutrients to the cells in the surface of
the mucous membrane of the gut in an easily absorbed form. This requires
much less energy to assimilate than solid tablets, especially in people
with inflamed mucous membranes in the intestines.

Juices can be combined in so many ways to make them palatable and
delicious. Their diverse colors and taste enable huge variety so that
you will not get bored. For those who feel they need an extra boost
there is nothing better than drinking 2 cups of raw vegetable juice
everyday. It will brighten up your day by providing extra energy and
endurance.

Raw juices are packed with living enzymes to assist the digestive
process, which means your gut, liver and pancreas do not have to work
very hard to extract almost 99% of the nutrients within the raw
vegetables and fruits.

This conserves vital body energy, which means that the body does not feel heavy or weighed down after drinking raw juices.

For example, two cups of carrot juice (16 ounces) is approximately
equivalent to eating one pound of raw carrots. Eating so many carrots at
one time would be hard on the jaws and teeth and would take a long time
to eat and digest. Juices are unique because they allow the gut to
receive very concentrated amounts of phytonutrients that could not be
obtained by eating a normal amount of raw vegetables and fruits.

Raw juices contain natural medicinal nutrients that provide antioxidant,
antibiotic, and hormonal balancing benefits. For example, Brussel
sprouts and string beans are known to contain insulin-like substances
that can be beneficial to Type 2 diabetics, and especially Type 1
diabetics. In addition, phytonutrients needed by the pancreas to produce
insulin are present in cucumber and onion juices; and, the
phytonutrient properties of broccoli, carrot, celery, lettuce and
spinach are also beneficial to diabetics.

For example, broccoli is an excellent source of chromium, which helps to
regulate insulin usage in the body. Fresh juices of garlic, onions,
radish and tomatoes contain various antibiotic properties. Alfalfa,
olives, asparagus, lettuce, mustard greens, radishes, cabbage and
cucumbers contain silicon, which works to support the pancreas.
Wheat/barley grass, celery, kelp, cucumber and cabbage juice are
excellent to reduce acidity and blood pressure.

Green, leafy vegetables such as spinach help to cleanse and heal the
gastrointestinal tract. The phytonutrient properties of carrot are also
beneficial to diabetics once they have their blood glucose level under
control.

In general, to help improve the health of your heart, nerves, kidneys, and eyes, drink daily 2-4 cups of raw
vegetable juices and smoothies. Drinking as little as 3 cups of fresh vegetable juice each day will help
the body detoxify and regenerate through the assimilation of the
earth’s life-giving nutrients.

Note: Although fruits and vegetables do not contain large quantities of
protein, their juice can be a convenient carrier for other sources of
protein. Simply add some freshly-ground flaxseed powder, Brewer's yeast, or wheat germ to
whatever you're juicing. These will provide quality protein that is quickly and
easily absorbed by the body without the fat that meat contains.

The raw juice is obtained using a device called a juicer. It works by
feeding raw vegetables, grasses and fruits into a chute that pushes the
food into a high-speed rotating blade that shreds the food, extracting
the juice from the pulp.

This extraction process breaks down the cellulose barriers in the cells
of the vegetables, grasses and fruits, allowing the release of powerful
enzymes and other nutrients. Juicers are very powerful but are not as
popular as blenders because they tend to be more difficult to use and to
clean.

Consequently, it is important that you purchase a juicer with fewer
parts, a powerful motor and a wide chute. This will prevent you from
spending a lot of time cutting up the vegetables/fruits to fit down the
chute of the juicer.

Note: If you don't like to use a juicer, use your blender to make scrumptious "healthy milkshakes" known as smoothies.

But, make sure that you use a high-powered blender that can pulverize
nuts and break down the cell walls of the vegetables without overheating
the vegetables.

Note: To
learn how to juice properly for blood glucose stabilization, insulin
control, reduced insulin resistance, reduced inflammation, accelerated
cell repair, and increased weight loss, get the Power of Juicing & Smoothies ebook. Also, get the Raw Food Diet ebook to help you get started with your raw food diet.